Product Description
by Jean Gora (Editor)
My Sweetest Libbie: Details of Life in Put-in-Bay, Lakeside & Detroit in 1886-87, Seen Through Love Letters presents the heart-warming story of a courtship through the never-before-published letters of two young adults, Libbie Magle and Alex Bruce. Through their eyes, we get glimpses of day-to-day life at Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie's South Bass Island, and at Lakeside, Ohio, Detroit and other small towns of Michigan during the 1880s.
Author Biography
Jean Gora, the editor of these letters, is a third-generation summer resident of Middle Bass Island. In her professional life, she has worked as an editor; she is currently manager of research for a life insurance industry trade association. She is an occasional contributor of historical information about the Lake Erie islands to the Internet site of Middle Bass on the Web www.middlebass.org run by her husband, Michael Gora. She has also written a column called, The Cyber Islander, which appeared periodically in the "Put-in-Bay Gazette."
